By Jacques Kmieciak on November 11,2016
It was the highlight of a week-long international mobilization. On Saturday October 22nd 2016, 400 people marched to the penitentiary centre in Lannemezan, in the Pyrenees, to demand the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (1). (more…)
By Maram Humaid November 1, 2016
For Samira Shawamreh, the cost of cancer treatment was that she and her husband had to divorce.
In 2014, Samira was diagnosed with bowel cancer. For treatment, she had to travel regularly between Hebron, where she then lived, and hospitals in Jerusalem and Beit Jala, also in the occupied West Bank. (more…)
By Joe Lauria on November 4, 2016
Through five years of war in Syria, President Obama has been in a constant internal struggle with hawks in his administration who want the U.S. to directly intervene militarily to overthrow the Syrian government. (more…)
October 30, 2016
Newly released audio has revealed that the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lamented the United States’ failure to rig the 2006 Palestinian election which saw the Hamas party claim a landslide victory over the Western-backed, and more moderate, Fatah. (more…)
By Nadia Prupis on October 28, 2016
Police arrested 141 people in North Dakota on Thursday, moving in with pepper spray and armored tanks on Native American water protectors and other activists who for months have waged resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). (more…)
Ben Norton on October 28, 2016
Saudi Arabia, a theocratic absolute monarchy that carries out mass executions of dissidents, beheads drug dealers, systematically subjugates women and has supported extremist groups like al-Qaida and ISIS, was re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday. (more…)
By Robert Parry on October 18, 2016
Iraq, a country that has faced imperial invasion, sanctions and war for over 26 consecutive years. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Note how differently The New York Times prepares the American public for civilian casualties from the new U.S.-backed Iraqi government assault on the city of Mosul to free it from the Islamic State, compared to the unrelenting condemnation of the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on neighborhoods of east. (more…)
October 19, 2016
The “overwhelming majority” of Palestinian minors held in Israel’s Megiddo and Ofer prisons have been tortured during their detention and interrogation, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said Tuesday, amid a marked increase in the incarceration and mistreatment of Palestinian children by Israel. (more…)